The context for this question can be found here: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/virt-maint/2011-March/002289.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679179 So the summary is that openbios needs to be compiled on PPC/SPARC and then imported to the rest of the repos as noarch. Spot spoke with Josh Boyer who noted that PPC was prep-only (no longer true) and concluded based upon this two person conversation that PPC should be dropped since it wasn't useful for Fedora purposes (mainly the PPC port). No conversation was had about SPARC (which had the same problem) and it was dropped as well. In short, the bug didn't get very wide attention and support was dropped for two features in order to push the Beta release. All of this I'm actually fine with. What I'm not fine with is that there seems to be no desire to bring these packages back. I spoke with several Red Hat virt people and the consensus was that SPARC/PPC "don't work." I beg to differ. I am building asm software on them right now. They are an invaluable software testing platform, even with their relative age. So in short, can we please bring back SPARC/PPC? I realize that we'll need a bit of build system magickery, but I really think its worth it. Its the last thing holding me from migrating my buildbot cluster to Fedora from Debian (who ships PPC/SPARC just fine). Nathaniel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
